the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

A bonny bunch I must say.

I need to get my reading glasses on!

I presume that guy with the "Fuck The NHS" shirt has something much more contentious on there, that his friend is covering with his hand.

No 'Fuck Business' tees?

ws of shame tbf

It used be Nelson Mandela they wanted to hang, who do they want to hang now I wonder?

(xp) You mean the blonde who will be breaking up Boris Johnson's next marriage 10 years from now?

the nice thing about ws's of shame is that they can remain a shallow delight

The dude behind her in the glasses appears to be a fan.

TBF the guy who wants to fuck the NHS doesn’t have a hitler moustache like the guy on the far left and he does seem to ❤️ “Hammer and sickle”.

It’s a travesty there’s no hammer and sickle emoji the best we can do are ⚒🛠🇦🇴

bless him, a Red October tribute as well!

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-tory-party/

spot the logical fallacy

Do I have to read the article or is it obvious from the URL?

Pretty obvious from the url

Good, good, I don’t need to be followed around the internet by whatever twinsetted nightmares are pictured on the google ads for conservativewoman.co.uk

The URL might cause you to think it was by a conservative woman though!

Michael St George is a freelance writer arguing for minimal-state, low-tax, free-markets minarchist-libertarianism. He tweets as @A_Liberty_Rebel.

That’s a very cis-normative view on who might be writing under the nom de plume of Michael St George.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/03/tories-london-mayor-pick-shaun-bailey-multiculturalism-robs-britain-of-its-community

I'd assumed up until now that he was just one of Cameron's well-meaning idiots but perhaps not.

there are no well-meaning tories iirc

minarchist = where your head of state is a tiny queen?

tbf we already have that

'May represents a different kind of politician: a calm headmistress in a chamber full of over-excitable public schoolboys.' - The Guardian

The year 2016, when some writers at the UK's quality broadsheet The Graun were projecting their own perverse fantasises on the new pm.

Swap "Calm" for "migraned" and

I just whiled away some time reading A*m*zon customer reviews of the two rush job Theresa May hagiographies after a "fully updated" one titled The Enigmatic Prime Minister appeared on my twitter feed!

Highest approval ratings for a Prime Minister ever, lest we forget.

"Rosa Prince maps the rise of a woman who had to fight against the odds to become the leader of her country."

and then the odds fought back!

Those odds are very odd.

Theresa May dances her way onto the stage for her big speech at #CPC18, as Abba's Dancing Queen plays in the background 💃

Live updates: https://t.co/fzegYJuJvG pic.twitter.com/A3xTSTUjva

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 3, 2018

will be nice to have Strictly Ballroom to fall back on

i hate this fucking country

"She questions whether former Labour PM Jim Callaghan would have asked the Russian government to confirm the findings of the UK's intelligence agencies, and asks what it has come to when Jewish people are considering leaving the country as they do not feel safe"

is there a number for the jewish people leaving the country because they don't feel safe and how does it compare to the number of europeans leaving the country because of brexit?

Legit wooooow at May saying the Tories stand for opportunities such as “the opportunity for your Windrush parents to come to the UK and see you become candidate for London mayor”

Who are these “four nations” btw, I only count three.

Have You Seen Which Song The British PM Danced To During Her Speech: This Is Everything

jesus christ that windrush line

http://images.gawker.com/18odwyjcs21z3gif/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_470.gif

Highest approval ratings for a Prime Minister ever

I'd forgotten that - in that magical time last year when the wheels were in motion to finally crush those saboteurs.

I don't know that I've ever seen a PM as unpopular as her now - possibly John Major? She seems to have literally no-one as a constituency.

this is when she really became Prime Minister

suspect this incredible dancing entrance is how I will remember her. it's like the necromancer who is controlling her and making her gun for a hard brexit she disagrees with is now forcing her body to move in unfamiliar ways and 'dance' awkwardly to put on a show for the party she must basically hate at this point. her rictus grin as she powers through constant humiliating internal deaths. I can only admire her ungodly determination.

Yeah, Major in '92: deadbeat leader without a strong mandate, of a party divided by Europe, facing a Labour party that has reinvented itself since the previous election but has a leader who puts people off...

i have now watched that video and metal micky dances more convincingly

Whole speech is playing to the crowd and Corbyn- bashing. Like where’s their alternative? What difference are they going to make in people’s lives? Corbyn is the leader of the opposition, has any LOTO ever been the focus for the actual governing party in this way before?

Bitter laugh about the professed concern about tolerance from someone in a confidence and supply agreement with a party who’d see the GFA destroyed.

Blair surely? Especially as the hate for him has persisted, does anyone really hate Major anymore?

I can only admire her ungodly determination.

and let's not forget her ungodly determination to see brexit through is actually ungodly determination to do something she didn't believe in in the first place

she's a profoundly odd character

has any LOTO ever been the focus for the actual governing party in this way before

it's been a long time since a leader of the opposition has actually staked out a visibly different alternative future for the country in the way corbyn has, and the tories are shitting it

Also love to profess concern for Jewish community with one hand while protecting a virulently anti Semitic government with the other.

xxp At least Major did better in that election than anyone expected..

gyac - while the hate for him has clearly continued and deepened, there are still no shortage of people who'd vote for Blair again in a heartbeat.

Bitter laugh about the professed concern about tolerance from someone in a confidence and supply agreement with a party who’d see the GFA destroyed.

Lest we forget #2

https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02629/Immigrant-billboar_2629522b.jpg

dead cat dance

Never liked them much tbh.